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Last month Galway Diary explored the sham legend that grew around the so-called ‘Empty frame’ on the wall of the Lynch’s Chapel, or Lady’s chapel, in the historic St Nicholas’ Collegiate church. The late Canon George Quinn pronounced that this was the very frame in which the Bishop of Clonfert, Walter Lynch’s sacred icon of the Madonna and Child once hung, before he was forced to flee just before the arrival of Cromwell’s soldiers in April 1652.

Galway and Irish sailing is mourning the loss of two giants of the sport.

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Irish National Teacher’s Organisation, the commemoration book Kindling the Flame by Niamh Puirséil was presented to Mayor of Athlone, Aengus O’Rourke, by the oranisation’s Athlone/Moate branch at its May meeting.

The contract for a 33-unit housing development at Arcadia was signed yesterday (Wednesday) at Athlone Civic Centre.

Get your bikes out because the Galway Bike Festival will take place from Saturday June 9 to Sunday June 17. The event which is funded by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport was officially launched in City Hall this week by the Mayor of the City of Galway, Cllr Pearce Flannery, and Cathaoirleach of the County of Galway Cllr Eileen Mannion.

Galway buskers will gather in force at the Spanish Arch this weekend for a "community-wide protest busk" to raise funds to continue the "battle to beat" what the community calls the "restrictive and prohibitive busking bye-laws".

A shocking €90,626 was spent during 2017 on cleaning up illegal dumping in the Athlone Municipal District.

Local councillors have welcomed news that Minister for Tourism, Shane Ross, has appointed Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) to progress the greenway from Athlone to Galway.

Mayor Aengus O'Rourke (FF) says the amount of weeds and moss in certain areas of Athlone is giving a whole new meaning to the region's 'growth centre' title.

There was widespread acclaim on Tuesday night when CARI Volunteer Forensic Accompaniment Service were announced as Galway City Council Volunteers of the Year, at the 15th Annual Mayor’s Awards for Galway City.